expression / adjective:

• best one could ask for; just what one wants; welcome (news); heaven-sent

noun / ~する noun:

• looking on with folded arms (with one's hands in one's sleeves); remaining a passive onlooker - four character idiom

noun:

• words you can't say on TV or radio; taboo words banned from broadcasts ➜ 放送禁止用語

adverb:

• on the way; someday

expression:

• always dot the i's and cross the t's; don't neglect the slightest detail; be punctilious - proverb

noun:

• clouds appearing before the wind starts to blow
• winds and clouds - esp. かぜくも ➜ 風雲【ふううん】

noun:

• folded in the middle

noun:

• staying or residing in the United States

noun:

• the Japan Record Award ➜ 日本レコード大賞

noun:

• playing shogi with a handicap of the rook and bishop
• participating in a contest while missing key players, pieces, etc.

noun:

• chanting the title of a sutra (esp. the Lotus Sutra) - Buddhism term ➜ 題目

noun:

• relations with China

noun:

• silk or paper with cotton threads

expression:

• to only look the part (but otherwise be wholly unsuited for it); a monkey wearing a crown - idiom

noun:

• the two solstices (summer and winter)

noun:

• New Year's greetings or well-wishes offered by retainers to the Emperor

noun:

• report to the throne

noun:

• ceremony to celebrate crossing the equator

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• the New Year begins ➜ 年が明ける・年が改まる・新年になる

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be beyond one's capacities; to be beyond one's powers; to be beyond one's control; to be unmanageable

noun / ~する noun:

• desalinating with water; salt removal ➜ 塩出し

noun / ~の noun:

• nostalgia for the good old days; retro-culture - four character idiom

noun:

• burdock root seasoned with sesame

noun:

• the point of a sword; the advance of an army

noun / ~する noun:

• one step forward, many steps backward; little to gain and much to lose - four character idiom